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Sokoto is incorporated after British military advance

British victory over Sokoto ended the caliphate's independent sovereignty while retaining the Sultanate within colonial administration.

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1903

Sokoto is incorporated after British military advance

British victory over Sokoto ended the caliphate's independent sovereignty while retaining the Sultanate within colonial administration.

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British victory over Sokoto ended the caliphate's independent sovereignty while retaining the Sultanate within colonial administration. Lugard's proclamation promised noninterference in religion under British supremacy.

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